We've done an interview with the SM Group from Dundalk where we show how organised crime groups have a vice-like grip over English & UEFA competitions and how the corresponding corruption oscillates between the systemic & semi-systemic & how an absence of regulation allows mafia to destroy integrity in football.
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Football's value was created over the last 150 years and mafia is stripping the sport of integrity and monetising the corruption on a proprietary basis leaving behind a shell, a spectacle of minimal consequence.
This predatory capitalism private equity template is a mafia construct...
... pure and simple.
And it's transparent...
God Bless England
1. Player Power - The Future Of The Transfer Market
Thank you for agreeing to this interview. Lassana Diarra won his court case against FIFA player transfer rules today. What difference do you think this ruling will make?
Obviously any initial assessment of the impact of the Diarra case is preliminary and it will take our Network time to fully appreciate the new realities.
But, off the top of my head, here are some angles of relevance.
I would put forward that this is a major victory for Brighton & Hove Albion club owner Tony Bloom.
Bloom has been periodically at war with a tiny rogue of a man since 2021 when their cartelised behaviours fragmented during the Euro 2020(21) tournament.
Earlier this year it was decided that it was in the current interests of the Football Is Fixed Network that Bloom and this tiny rogue of a man re-coalesce. We prompted this re-engagement via careful nudging with an individual within Bloom's inner orbit.
Our strategic modelling showed that it was also very much in Bloom's interests for the fragmentation to end for a window.
And so it came to pass.
The corruption template in the Premier League immediately became a different construct and much mutual camaraderie was exhibited between Bloom and the tiny rogue of a man.
Mr Bloom has even been in talks to become an investor and minority shareholder in Scottish joke club Heart of Midlothian, a club very close to the tiny rogue of a man's heart.
Sweet.
But this re-coalescence is a gamed arrangement which, ultimately, is only to the benefit of one party...
... with the other party inversely correlated in the outcomes ahead.
We will discuss this later in this interview (because you kindly did a Kuenssberg and forwarded us all the questions - good man!)
Anyway.
Our initial favoured projection for the future of the transfer market is as follows.
The transfer market will collapse in its current form as no club is going to pay £100 million for Jack Grealish if Mr Grealish can wander off and join a new club whenever it pleases him. [In fact, nobody should pay £100 million for Grealish, full stop. But that is another matter.]
This will impact negatively upon football agents as their primary power resides in the manipulations of the transfer market. Agents will also lose their percentage of the inflated transfer fees. For reasons we are not willing to share fully at this time, we believe that it will be players' unions who will step into the void, this beautiful void, that will pop into existence with the decline of the football agent.
Good riddance to the corrupted leeches!
In June 2021 (just prior to the Euros), one Maheta Molango was smuggled in surprisingly announced as the new CEO of the Professional Footballers' Association.
This was interesting for three reasons.
Firstly, Mr Molango was 'on the run' from shenanigans (alleged shenanigans, that would be) during his time as chief executive of RCD Mallorca. Secondly, who the fuck was Maheta Molango. And, thirdly, Molango and Bloom have history not just related to Molango's period of playing for Brighton & Hove Albion between 2004 and 2007.
The PFA will be in an immensely strong position to move into the territory formerly occupied by football agents, cartels of agents, third party ownership scams, kickback merchants, backhander bastardos and the criminal fringe (and core).
Players will be able, in future, to trust the PFA to enable and optimise their careers as they shuffle around from one club to the other.
Player loyalty to club will exist only in the immediate with the PFA acting as intermediary and catalyst for the transfer continuum that will come to define many player's careers.
This infrastructure would effectively blow football agents out of the water. Good. It is agents who are at the epicentre of all corruptions in football - in that they are the only entities that converse with ALL other parties.
Of course, Bloom, being a genius of astronomical proportions, had the Diarra case in his sights way back.
On May 27th 2016, Diarra was ordered to pay a 10 million euro fine to Lokomotiv Moscow for breach of contract (the action that led to the Diarra versus FIFA case).
He appointed Belgian / Spanish firm Dupont-Hissel lawyers to act on his behalf.
Around this time, Bloom was in the process of becoming majority shareholder in Brussels club Royale Union St Gilloise.
Brussels hence became the locus of the determination as to whether players have total freedom of movement which the Court of Justice of the European Union has now decided players are being denied.
The rest, as they say, is history.
Bloom already dominates the global betting market infrastructures.
He was the first European to delve into the South East Asian underground betting markets in the mid-nineties.
Furthermore, his sabermetric analytical oversight seeking value in the current transfer market has achieved the most astonishing returns at Brighton over the last few seasons with players arriving for peanuts and parting for, oh, I don't know, pistachios.
Lots of pistachios.
And he will soon have significant leverage and, eventually, come to dominate the England and Wales transfer market via the PFA infrastructure too.
And the PFA can integrate with FIFPRO and all sorts of other things can happen that are currently unknown unknowns.
Tomorrow, England and Wales.
The Day After Tomorrow, the world.
Sack Infantino.
Install Bloom!!
The enhanced transfer market that will be created by Bloom will be to the benefit of players, fans and the sport itself.
Indeed, it is as near as football will ever get to some sort of legitimacy.
A transfer market run by a players' union...
... or a transfer market run by organised crime, crooks, chancers and other captains of chaotic corruption and predatory capitalism?
Your choice.
Oh! And Mr Bloom.
Mr Bloom will do very nicely out of this.
A total fucking coup!
And, as an aside, Lass Diarra is a bit of a hero...
There will, however, be two major downsides.
Players will become like highly paid active sporting consultants to an array of teams throughout their careers. Club squads will be permanently in flux meaning more transaction fees to be paid into PFA coffers.
Very sweet.
There will also be the financial incentive to potentially turn the entity from a players' union into a private operation which would morph inevitably into a private equity construct which will suck the value out of the entire universe of the hyperreality that has been established by this, in effect, entirely pointless progression..
The cycle of predatory capitalism never evolves as it evolves.
What goes around comes around in this revolving door binary irrelevance.
Addendum:
Being a Direct Action Network, we only approach these farcical spectacles of puffed up futility from a mocking anarchist perspective.
But.
Lawyers truly care so here is a precis of Jan Zglinski's overview of the Diarra case...
FIFA has three options.
Option 1 - FIFA ignores the ruling and draws up new transfer regulations without consulting the players.
Option 2 - Collective bargaining can take place between players and employers. An EU mechanism exists for this very purpose and an EU-wide agreement could, via the Brussels effect, lead to changes across Europe (including non-EU countries) and possibly even globally.
This collective bargaining construct could additionally be extended to cover other adjacent issues affecting labour relations in football - minimum / maximum wages, contract lengths, healthcare provisions...
Collective bargaining underpins most US sports.
Option 3 - FIFA seeks player support for transfer market reform without launching a formal collective bargaining process.
Currently, FIFPRO prefer Option 2 (as we suggested in our interview) while FIFA prefer Option 1 as they are a sociopathic institution and will always avoid relinquishing power voluntarily.
Hilariously, FIFA is claiming a victory out of this heavy defeat. But there are very significant strategic reasons for FIFA to properly consider Options 2 & 3 according to Zglinski.
If FIFA's proprietary reforms don't go far enough then players will continue to challenge under EU competition law - "death by a thousand cuts".
While Option 3 reduces the risk of further legal actions by individual players, only Option 2 would provide long term security for FIFA as collective bargaining agreements are exempted from EU antitrust scrutiny.
It is the players who hold all of the cards in this brave new world - agents, executives, bookmakers, media, institutions, managers, coaches & mafia are superfluous to the reality of the sport.
If there's no players, there's no football.
Nothing to leech onto.
Nothing to corrupt.
It is the inverse of all top-down hierarchies...
... the workers are in control!!
Excellent stuff.
Right, next question...
2. The Full Extent Of The Football Is Fixed Network
Who are you? What do you do? Why do you do it?
I am an anti-corruption whistleblower addressing the role of organised crime in football.
We are a Network of individuals who work together in a cellular web to monitor and expose these systemic / semi-systemic corruptions.
The Network is the most accurate market making analytical group on planet Earth and we provide our proprietary Quantum Market Analytics to a top table market maker in return for the funding of our extensive sousveillance security constructs and matrices. We consolidate this support structure by selling our Quantum Market Analytics to individual market focused entities.
We don't actively participate in the global betting markets although individual members place small positions with captured public operations to provide disinformation, or prompts to illuminate behaviours contrary to integrity in football, or to make a few quid on the side, or to place doubt in the minds of those matchfixing our sport, or occasionally to hedge or enhance actual market stances from elsewhere.
This is just poker play bluff and we utilise these programmes to address the financial and psychological realities of individuals involved in organised crime and the corrupting of football.
Every time our Quantum Market Analytics have detected corruptions pre-match in the Premier League this season, we have been correct - from Everton v Brighton on the opening weekend to Brentford v Wolves last weekend, from Leicester City v Aston Villa to Manchester United versus anyone and everyone.
I am told that our Network has around a score of members from different loci in the global game but we are split into separate cells for strategic defence purposes.
We only release a small percentage of our evidences for a wide array of strategic reasons and we maintain a torque, a tension with enemy forces via our constructs.
There are only two end scenarios - accommodation or mutually assured destruction.
And I, for one, have very little to lose in this encounter - it's like taking a 6/4 shot at Draw No Bet on the Asian Handicaps in full knowledge that the trade cannot lose.
It is a military strategy, nothing more, nothing less.
Why do we do it?
What else is there to do?
We are living in the end times of climate catastrophe-based self-annihilation and a bunch of mafia are corrupting the most beautiful sport.
We knew football was fucked when we started the blog nearly 18 years ago - indeed we considered calling the blog 'Football Is Fucked'...
... we should have done.
The aim of our output is twofold - to expose the corruption mechanisms in football and to show that it is predatory capitalism operations that see criminals and state integrating to corrupt wider society in a kleptocratic style.
As soon as you attach a market to something, it is fucked.
The money dominates the real purpose, whatever that purpose might be.
Football has gone.
It is simply the biggest gambling edifice on the planet, the biggest casino; all those multi-billion pound liquidity markets being officiated by the captured and subjective decisions of match officials on a few grand per week.
We all have a price!
I wrote a thesis 30 years ago which proved that British horseracing was corrupted and that, if there were liabilities on a horse for the core of the betting industry, then that animal was stopped.
I wasn't allowed to publish this thesis due to threats from Rodney Brack's Bullingdon Boys' gang (Brack was then chief executive of the British Horseracing Levy Board).
So, I sold the thesis to a leading bookmaker!
Anyway.
In effect.
The whole thing is futile.
Permanent David versus Goliath war with fearful psychopaths.
To what end?
The most contorted aspect of this whole nonsense is that we are in the rooms where the criminal decisions are made.
Not literally, of course.
But.
Believe me.
We are in their rooms.
Building Up And Tearing England Down
3. In The Blue Corner, A Lizard; In The Red Corner, A Dwarf
So we guess that the struggle against organised crime is one battlefield you will not soon be departing?
We place ourselves in the borderlands between the occupied territories of corruption and a more enlightened reality.
There are two potential paths ahead for the underground forces underpinning British football - some integrity with a side dish of shenanigans or an entrenched (and terminal) systemic corruption.
The Lizard has the opportunity to "save" football but, on the flip side, he could have chosen to coalesce with the Dwarf and become the man who "sold out" on football.
Let's examine the holistic of this hologram of a hyperreality.
Operations of Intrigue in general bifurcate between fragmentation and coalescence but the only inevitability is the continuing fragmentation in these battles over turf.
The Lizard jettisoned the Dwarf in 2021 for good reasons - the cheeky chappy gutter criminal could not help himself from displaying his chaotic form of psychopathic personality disorder to the detriment of associated parties.
Dominic Cummings wrote an excellent essay on his blog where he deconstructed the peculiar sociopathic construct of former prime minister Johnson. This multi-layered quantised psychopathy is incredibly short-termist and strategic foresight is conspicuous by its absence.
The Dwarf (and his fantastical array of aliases) mimic Cumming's psychological assessment of Johnson.
It is not feasible to strategically move forward as a team with such operators as they are genetically predisposed to self-destruct serially.
And external high level consultative advice brought in is unable to create any robustness to strategy due to this permanent chaos...
... rubbish in, rubbish out is the ongoing cry.
A couple of examples.
The Dwarf has been involved on an advisory level supporting Rebekah Vardy in her farcical high court case against Coleen Rooney.
The Dwarf has brought all of his troops out to fight this battle.
It hasn't gone well.
After being slaughtered by Rooney's immense strategic defence and sousveillance, Ms Vardy and her advisers just keep digging.
Robert Dunne, Rooney's barrister chimed: "It is probably the most ill-advised legal action since Oscar Wilde put pen to writ."
And, in the impotent realisation of his defeat, the Dwarf has been aggressively targeting Coleen's husband Wayne - a pitiful and pathetic response to a proprietary strategic inadequacy.
The Dwarf was also behind Lee Carsley becoming interim manager of the English national team.
He managed to get Stellar's Ashley Cole and Wasserman's Joleon Lescott appointed as key coaching advisers.
Then along came Greece and the entire military operation collapsed or, should we say, was brought a-tumbling down.
The Lizard is overwhelming the Dwarf across the chess board in a multi-pronged attack.
At times of uproar in sport, underground forces always coalesce.
In the mid-nineties the biggest British bookmakers were under pressure from the government and, in response, the Big 3 of Ladbrokes, William Hill and Coral established the Association for the Major Levy Payers to fight with an allegedly united front.
But this unity of purpose was a smokescreen for battles over turf.
Ladbrokes utilised the liaison to set the seeds for the eventual takeover of Coral.
And, as ever in fake constructs, the slaughter had to be attached to created spectacles of crime.
So, Frankie Dettori won all seven races at a race meeting at Royal Ascot in 1996 and a feelgood story was added to the real purpose of this charade.
Rails bookmaker Gary Wiltshire lost over one million pounds at this crime scene while Coral took a major hit just before their accounting year end.
Two years after the Dettori sting, Ladbrokes acquired Coral.
A theatre of spectacle!
Rogue operators just can't help themselves - if you're going to take the piss then you might as well totally take the piss.
We are witnessing a reincarnation of this strategy in the current alleged re-coalescence between the Lizard and the Dwarf.
You know what, let's have a perusal at this nest of vipers.
Lizards are paraphyletic in that some lizards are more closely related to snakes than they are to other lizards.
But some lizards are chameleons and reconstitute themselves in different patterns to suit the situation.
The Lizard and the Dwarf announced their re-engagement towards the conclusion of Premier League season 2023/24.
The Football is Fixed Network had puppeted this process.
Templates immediately altered - the global betting markets readjusted, the strategies and linkages of the PGMOL morphed into new matrices, the hidden agendas of the EPL hierarchy evolved and a project was re-energised for nonsenses at Euro 2024 (in an excellent example of a turf battle / corruption deja vu)...
Strategies were made and promises sworn but very much on the Lizard's terms - the Dwarf had to beg to be allowed back into the Lizard's lair.
But beneath this new allegedly systemic structure was a grabbing of turf hidden within the velvet glove of perceived cooperation.
All of the Lizard's ensuing gains have been immediate and robust while all of the Dwarf's enhancements have been pseudo or delayed, and consequently illusory.
The Lizard incorporates bluff, double bluff, treble bluff, quadruple bluff, nth level bluff (where n is a very large number).
Lizards are slippery lacertae.
The Dwarf has experienced a continuum of spectacular and structural realities, playing with his psychology, destabilising his platforms and looting his booty.
It is a squeezing of margins and space.
It is a death by natural causes or, rather, a self-harming carcinogenic parade marching to the peripheries.
The Dwarf will soon be "out of the saga" in the Islendingasogur sense of the phrase.
It isn't only the global transfer market that the Dwarf has lost control of!
The Lizard is evolving into the Komodo Dragon.
This Lizard doesn't need the Dwarf and, indeed, the presence of the Dwarf will markedly undermine the potential for the Lizard's full strategy to be optimised as it is impossible to build a sustainable strategy when attached to a chaotic short-termism.
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The Lizard is getting the Monkey off his back.
The Lizard is collapsing and taking over the transfer market, developing an enhanced control of the liquid global betting markets, exploding the fake edifices of corrupted football agents, manipulating loci regarding IREF, mocking the murk, undermining the systemic corruptions of FIFA / UEFA and, most importantly, establishing a foundation for the next stage of the spectacle.
The Lizard is building up and tearing English corruption down.
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